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The Chicago Housing Authority was founded in 1937 in Chicago to provide homes for poor and low-income residents. One the city's most famous, Cabrini-Green on the Near North Side, began as the Frances Cabrini Homes in 1942 with less than 600 low-rise units. By 1962, with additions and extensions to the development, Cabrini-Green housed more than 3,600 families. That same year, the CHA opened the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side, a poorly maintained, mammoth hi-rise that became infamous for violent crime and urban blight. In 1996, citing mismanagement and poor performance, the federal government temporarily took over the CHA. In 2000, the CHA began demolishing many of its hi-rise...
The Chicago Housing Authority was founded in 1937 in Chicago to provide homes for poor and low-income residents. One the city's most famous, Cabrini-Green on the Near North Side, began as the Frances Cabrini Homes in 1942 with less than 600 low-rise units. By 1962, with additions and extensions to the development, Cabrini-Green housed more than 3,600 families. That same year, the CHA opened the Robert Taylor Homes on the South Side, a poorly maintained, mammoth hi-rise that became infamous for violent crime and urban blight. In 1996, citing mismanagement and poor performance, the federal government temporarily took over the CHA. In 2000, the CHA began demolishing many of its hi-rises as part of its $1.6 billion "Plan for Transformation."
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Columbia woman pursues discrimination complaint against Long & Foster
A Columbia woman who participates in the government-funded Housing Choice Voucher Program has filed a discrimination complaint against a major real estate company after she was denied the opportunity to rent a Columbia townhouse last year. Shervon...Tags: Realty, Discrimination, Civil Rights, Real Estate, Companies and Corporations
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Aberdeen council approves $12.4 million budget
The Aberdeen City Council passed a $12.4 million operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year beginning July 1 at Monday's council meeting. The new budget keeps the same city tax rates and fees and reduces spending by 28 percent below the 2012 budget. The...
Tags: Property Tax, Aberdeen, Budgets and Budgeting, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Section 8 (housing)
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New study links crime rate to public housing relocation efforts
What happens when cities tear down public housing? The issue has played out in Baltimore and major cities across the country (remember the controversy surrounding HOPE VI, or Opportunities for People Everywhere? More here on that). A new study out this... -
States best wrestlers gather for all-star meet
Archbishop Curley senior Avery Williams didn't waste time accepting an invitation to the Haswell Franklin Maryland State Wrestling Association Senior All-Star Meet. He said he couldn't refuse the offer and made the best of the event which was held at...Tags: High School Sports, Pittsburgh, Wrestling
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IAAM announces its 2011-12 basketball all-stars
IAAM BASKETBALL ALL-STARS
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With captain sidelined, Broadneck heads into final day of regional in 4th place
Controversy off the mat leading in to Friday night's Class 4A-3A East Region wrestling tournament didn't dull the action at Wilde Lake, as 25 teams sent competitors into the quarterfinals. Among the highlights, Centennial senior Nathan Kraisser, who is...Tags: High School Sports, Wrestling, Sexually Transmitted Diseases
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Measure would prohibit landlords from discriminating against Section 8
Bonnie Celmer had been on the waiting list for Section 8 housing since July when she finally got a voucher three weeks ago. She's still living in a Baltimore County homeless shelter, unable to find an apartment. "I've been looking for a place, but I can'...Tags: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Towson, Public Housing, Baltimore County, Section 8 (housing)
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As temperatures fall, fewer city beds for the homeless
The clean, bright hallways of Baltimore's new homeless shelter lead to laundry rooms, private showers and a cluster of computers. The building outshines in nearly every regard the temporary facility it replaced, advocates say. But the $8 million shelter...Tags: Conservation, Baltimore Weather, Hospitals and Clinics, Interior Policy, Family
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Alleged $1.4 million housing authority fraud began small, indictment says
In early 2010, officials at Baltimore's public housing agency noticed a few thousand dollars had gone missing — transferred without authorization to the bank account of a man who rented his Northeast Baltimore home to a low-income tenant,...Tags: Defendants, Justice System, Interior Policy, Public Housing, Lawyers
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A survivor, Graziano draws mixed reviews after nearly 11 years as housing chief
Paul T. Graziano looked for all the world like a short-timer. Just weeks into his new job as Baltimore's housing commissioner, he was arrested at a Fells Point bar after a drunken tirade laced with anti-gay slurs.
That was more than 10 years ago. He's...Tags: Realty, Hospitals and Clinics, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, Fells Point
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Baltimore housing officials warn of fake fliers for vouchers
Baltimore housing officials are warning that the city's homeless and others in need are being misled by deceptive fliers offering Section 8 housing vouchers. The fake fliers are circulating throughout the city, according to statement from the Housing...Tags: Interior Policy, Sheila Dixon, Housing and Urban Planning
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Just say no to war with Iran
How fitting! On this year's Veterans' Day we're learning about the next war in the Middle East ("Iran and the bomb," Nov. 11). Now it's Iran that's in the crosshairs. In my opinion the Pentagon has become "too big to fail," and lessons from the recent...Tags: NATO, Civil Unrest, Iran, Religious Conflicts
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